Techpolitics

The White House

Official WH twitter account. Comments & messages received through official WH pages are subject to the PRA and may be archived. Learn more http://wh.gov/privacy
2,667,565 followers |

Jack Dorsey

Executive Chairman of Twitter, CEO of Square, a founder of both.
1,857,737 followers |

Guardian Tech

News and comment from the Guardian's technology team
1,735,720 followers |

Tim O'Reilly

Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media. Watching the alpha geeks, sharing their stories, helping the future unfold.
1,532,280 followers |

Steven Johnson

Writer. (7 books, most recently Where Good Ideas Come From.) Web site creator (3 companies, most recently outside.in.) Dad (three boys.)
1,445,990 followers |

Ana Marie Cox

You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.
1,360,968 followers |

Joe Trippi

Fmr Dean Campaign Mgr. Author of The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Tweets important causes. Internet and Democracy. Social media and business.
1,032,159 followers |

Arianna Huffington

president and editor-in-chief of the huffington post media group. mother. sister. flat shoe advocate. sleep evangelist.
838,795 followers |

Eric Schmidt

Executive Chairman & former CEO
429,927 followers |

Beth Kanter

Let's talk about networked approaches & social media for training and capacity building for the nonprofit sector that leverage learning and impact.
404,698 followers |

Pierre Omidyar

Be you. Be cool. eBay, Omidyar Network, Peer News/Civil Beat.
398,735 followers |

Open Government

Official Twitter account of the White House Open Government Initiative
394,564 followers |

Alec Ross

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Senior Advisor for Innovation.
374,836 followers |

Social Citizen

Emily, over @CaseFoundation -- inviting you to explore how the next generation is creating change through ideas, digital tools and people power with me.
338,156 followers |

Jared Cohen

Director of Google Ideas & Adjunct Senior Fellow at CFR. Author of the books Children of Jihad, One Hundred Days of Silence, & forthcoming The New Digital Age
296,207 followers |

OSTP

Official Twitter account of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy #TOTD is our Tweetoid of the Day (send us your ideas!)
268,720 followers |

Avaaz.org

The world in action.
258,554 followers |

Change.org

Change.org is the world’s fastest growing platform for social change, empowering millions to start and join campaigns for social change in their communities.
253,228 followers |

Twestival®

Connecting amazing people offline globally for a great cause. Sign up to get the latest news on http://twestival.com Looking ahead to 2012!
224,009 followers |

Cory Doctorow

Writer, blogger, activist. If you want a reply, use email. Blog suggestions here: http://boingboing.net/submit/
222,119 followers |

Clay Shirky

Bald. Unreliable. Easily distracte
189,454 followers |

Lessig

law professor, reformer.
177,534 followers |

Meghan McCain

Buy the ticket, Take the ride - Hunter S. Thompson
131,508 followers |

Alex Howard

Gov 2.0 @Radar Correspondent, @OReillyMedia: alex@oreilly.com. Intrigued by technological change, taken with ideas, cooking, the outdoors, books, dogs and media
119,072 followers |

Brian Stelter

I report on TV & digital media for The New York Times. RT & links aren't endorsements. Also: @brianstelter25 bstelter@gmail.com | 212-556-4668 | 240-793-2483
108,857 followers |

Baratunde

Author of #HowToBeBlack (http://howtobeblack.me) Dir. of Digital for @TheOnion. Reside in Brooklyn Live in Twitter. My tweets represent your employer's opinions
107,000 followers |

Jeff Jarvis

blogger and j-school prof
89,953 followers |

Jay Rosen

I teach journalism at NYU, direct the Studio 20 program there, critique the press and try to grok new media. I don't do lifecasting but mindcasting on Twitter.
76,881 followers |

tom_watson

Busy dad, disorganised Labour politician, lover of film and video games. Writing a book on phone hacking with @martin_hickman
67,948 followers |

Ben Smith

Editor-in-Chief of BuzzFeed.com. Email or gchat me at ben@buzzfeed.com. AIM benobserver.
66,500 followers |

Andy Carvin

Senior strategist at NPR. Online community organizer since 1994. Former director of the Digital Divide Network. Writer. Photographer. Dad.
63,092 followers |

danah boyd

social media scholar, youth researcher & advocate | Microsoft Research, Harvard Berkman Center | zephoria@zephoria.org
59,138 followers |

Markos Moulitsas

Founder of Daily Kos, author of American Taliban: How Sex, Sin, and Power Bind Jihadists to the Radical Right
57,141 followers |

Xeni Jardin

Madam Boing. Breast cancer isn't something I have, but something my body is currently doing. I tweet about this, and all that my mind is doing. xeni@xeni.net
54,664 followers |

Mitch Kapor

startup investor and advisor, social change advocate/activist
49,358 followers |

craignewmark

customer service rep & founder for craigslist & craigconnects
48,287 followers |

Pew Research Center

Nonpartisan, non-advocacy data and analysis on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world.
47,064 followers |

Joi Ito

Director, MIT Media Lab
45,219 followers |

Dave Winer ☮

Developed first blogging software, RSS and podcasting, outliners, web CMS. Media hacker. Boot strapper. Writer. Academic. Friendly. :-)
44,686 followers |

Mary Katharine Ham

43,309 followers |

Tara missrogue Hunt

CEO (@buyosphere), blogger (@ungracefully), Author/Speaker (@whuffiefactor), Mom (@taquitotadito), Pug lover (@ridley) + partner (@carlospache_co)
41,732 followers |

NicolasVanbremeersch

CEO, spintank. Politics, wine, digital whatever.
38,576 followers |

Marshall Kirkpatrick

CEO @plexusengine Writer @ ReadWriteWeb Consultant @ Marshallk.com VP @rcrwireless
37,843 followers |

Erick Erickson

Editor-in-chief of RedState.com. Host of the Erick Erickson Show on http://wsbradio.com. A CNN Political Contributor.
36,902 followers |

Dave Troy

Home of Twittervision on Twitter
36,876 followers |

Chris Messina™

Bachelor of Arts. I work at Google. #godfather (http://nyti.ms/lJ6Kdj) I am not the actor. http://wiki.factoryjoe.com/140-Character-Bios
36,660 followers |

Don Tapscott

Author (most recent book Macrowikinomics), consulting company CEO, Hammond B3 player, striving to live a principled life of consequence.
33,676 followers |

HuffPost Tech

The Huffington Post Tech section. Email: technology@huffingtonpost.com.
33,435 followers |

John Perry Barlow

I co-founded EFF, wrote songs for the Dead, ranched in Wyoming for 17 years. A weird father, a good friend, and an excellent ex.
31,492 followers |

Howard Rheingold

Independent thinker, online instigator, novice educator, expert learner, offline gardener.
27,170 followers |

Mark Pesce

Australian inventor, author, educator and entrepreneur, serializing THE NEXT BILLION SECONDS, about communication, sharing and politics... ENFJ.
26,723 followers |

Pew Internet

The @PewResearch Center's Internet & American Life Project, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization. Twitter feed managed by @SusannahFox, @JoannaBrenner
26,614 followers |

Esther Dyson

Internet court jEsther -- I occupy Esther Dyson. www.flickr.com/photos/edyson
26,110 followers |

Tweet Congress

Grassroots effort to get Congress tweeting!
24,061 followers |

Marc Ambinder

Contributing editor at @TheAtlantic, author of The Command, an eBook out 2/21. Repped by WME. National security, politics, culture, epicycles upon epicycles.
23,262 followers |

Knight Foundation

Knight Foundation supports transformational ideas that promote quality journalism, advance media innovation, engage communities and foster the arts.
22,835 followers |

Ory Okolloh

Mama of 3 girls who will run the world, Google Policy Manager Africa, co-founder Ushahidi.com & Mzalendo.com, Afropolitan, Kenyan. Views = mine.
22,719 followers |

Ushahidi

We are a non-profit tech company that specializes in developing free and open source software for information collection,visualization and interactive mapping.
22,503 followers |

Gabe Rivera

I run Techmeme. Sometimes I tweet what I mean. Sometimes I tweet the opposite. I'm not as nice as my picture here suggests. .
21,950 followers |

Liza Sabater

@culturekitchen @DailyGotham blogdiva extraordinaire. criminally prolific multilingual twittinfluencer. shmears gossip, news, sports & tech w/humor & profanity
21,934 followers |

Matt K. Lewis

Senior contributor at The Daily Caller / Editor of the book, The Quotable Rogue.
21,531 followers |

Alan Rosenblatt

Taught 1st Internet Politics college course in '95. Webcasted 2000 DNC/RNC Conventions. Social Advocacy Strategist, professor, & pioneer. @CAPaction. Opins own.
21,345 followers |

Dr. Mark Drapeau

I'm technically part of the Microsoft Office of Civic Innovation, but mostly I wake up, talk to people, and enjoy cocktails (not necessarily in that order).
20,929 followers |

Allyson Kapin

Founder of Women Who Tech: A Telesummit for Women in Tech in the non-profit and political campaign world. And Founder of Rad Campaign http://www.RadCampaign.com
20,307 followers |

Chris DiBona

Googler, Open Source Dude, Dad
20,145 followers |

Jonathan Zittrain

Professor @Harvard_Law, @Kennedy_School, @HSEAS Comp Sci Dept. + @BerkmanCenter; @EFF and @InternetSociety board member
18,793 followers |

Dan Gillmor

Bio and disclosures: http://dangillmor.com/about (Photo by Joi Ito)
18,756 followers |

Saul Anuzis

Conservative, MI Republican, RNC, Newt Fan, NRA, Harley Road King, CPAC, RTL, dad of 4 boys!
18,504 followers |

Rebecca MacKinnon

Writer, Internet freedom activist. Forthcoming book - Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom. Jan. 2012, Basic Books.
18,035 followers |

Ethan Zuckerman

Center for Civic Media, MIT Media Lab, Global Voices Online, Berkman Center. Formerly Geekcorps, Tripod. RT ≠ endorsement, RT = interesting read.
17,809 followers |

Farhad Manjoo

I write for Slate, Fast Company, and the NYT.
17,722 followers |

Andrew Keen

The Anti Christ of Silicon Valley
17,500 followers |

Eric Boehlert

Eric Boehlert is a Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America. Opinions are my own. Especially ones that offend people.
17,312 followers |

Patrick Ruffini

Hang my hat at @engagedc, makers of @GetMultiply. Focused on data, design, and the digital disruption of everything.
16,834 followers |

David Weinberger

I mainly write about the effect of tech on our ideas
16,762 followers |

Mark Glaser

Executive editor of PBS MediaShift and Idea Lab; writer, editor, dad, singer, ridiculous-maker.
16,294 followers |

Berkman Center

The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University - exploring cyberspace, sharing in its study, and helping to pioneer its development
16,274 followers |

Ari Melber

Attorney / Nation magazine correspondent / TV / Facebook.com/AriMelber
15,987 followers |

Doc Searls

Author of The Intention Economy, co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto, Fellow of CITS at UCSB, alumnus Fellow of the Berkman Center at Harvard.
15,633 followers |

johnculberson

John Culberson: Proud father, happy husband. TX Congressman-Jeffersonian Republican. Let Texans Run Texas. Amateur astronomer
14,976 followers |

douglas rushkoff

media theorist, author; PROGRAM OR BE PROGRAMMED: http://orbooks.com/our-books/program/; LIFE INC: How Corporatism Conquered the World & How We Can Take It Back
14,762 followers |

Jose Antonio Vargas

An undocumented American, founder of @defineamerican. Subscribe on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/joseiswriting
14,158 followers |

Scott Heiferman

Meetup CEO
13,513 followers |

Ravi Singh - CEO

Hi! Welcome to my page. As CEO ElectionMall.com I am passionate about politics,“everyday is a campaign” 4 me! I tweet from all over the world. Will u follow me?
13,329 followers |

Jonah Peretti

Co-Founder: BuzzFeed | Huffington Post | ContagiousMedia.org
13,105 followers |

Macon Phillips (EOP)

An official WH twitter account. Comments & messages received through official WH pages are subject to the PRA and may be archived. Learn more wh.gov/privacy
13,085 followers |

Sunlight Foundation

Working to change the relationship between citizens and their government with Internet technology.
12,924 followers |

Justin Hart

Vice President of @ElectionMall. Opinions are my own but nevertheless... awesome.
12,866 followers |

TimKarr

All things media, online and off... but mostly on. Karr is the senior director of strategy at Free Press, the nation's largest media reform grp. Tweets my own.
12,793 followers |

Mike Wesch

media parkour
12,644 followers |

Debbie Weil

author, 2.0 publisher @VoxieMedia: Big Ideas, Short Books™ digital/print publishing for up&coming biz authors; 1 spot left to write a short kick-ass eBook w/me
11,824 followers |

Clive Thompson

Journalist, blogger, musician. Wired mag columnist, contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine. Writing a book about how tech affects our thought.
11,794 followers |

Streetsblog Network

The national blog network for sustainable transport, smart growth and livable streets.
11,339 followers |

Peter Daou

Human Rights, Environment, Politics, Jazz, Dad...
10,681 followers |

David Cohn

Recovering tech reporter: Built Spot.Us (www.spot.us) a new biz model for news, acquired by APM. Teach at UC Berkeley J-school + other things. Also, I love you.
10,652 followers |

Rick Klau

Political junkie. Husband. Partner @GoogleVentures (former PM @YouTube, @Blogger, @GoogleProfiles). Father of 3. Not in that order.
10,147 followers |

Garance Franke-Ruta

Senior editor (politics) for @TheAtlantic. Your early warning system. Politics, media, breaking. gfrankeruta@theatlantic.com
10,140 followers |

Jane Hamsher

Blogger, author, dog mom, breast cancer survivor, recovering movie producer
10,116 followers |

Steve Ressler

Social Network Connecting Gov't Community Passionate about public service innovation
10,005 followers |

Robert Greenwald

Filmmaker, political activist and founder of Brave New Films. robert@bravenewfilms.org
9,901 followers |

Leslie Bradshaw

Calling me intense is putting it lightly | President + COO + Co-Founder @JESS3 | Contributor @Forbes | Terroir + Family @BradshawPinot | Econ + Gender @UChicago
9,155 followers |

Karl Frisch

Columnist. Radio Host-ish. Gay. #Gleek. Partner at @BullfightStrat. Former @MMFA senior fellow. Former @DSCC and @LouiseSlaughter flack. Views here are his own.
8,824 followers |

SusannahFox

Internet geologist. Health care gadfly. Community colleague. Currently reading: Will to Live: AIDS Therapies and the Politics of Survival
8,540 followers |

Amy Sample Ward

Speaker, author, blogger & collaborator focused on real social change & the technologies that can support it. NTEN Membership Director. Links at @amysampleward
8,393 followers |

Kety Maria Esquivel

VP Digital Strategy Ogilvy PR | Published Author | TV Commentator | Ivy League Graduate | Entrepreneur | Consultant | Creative | Explorer
8,374 followers |

Adrian Holovaty

Web developer, Python programmer, founder of EveryBlock.com, cocreator of the Django Web framework, poster of YouTube guitar videos.
8,342 followers |

Rob Bluey

Conservative blogger and journalist for @Heritage. Fan of @steelers, @pghpenguins and @SaranacBrewery. Originally from @UticaNY. Views are my own.
8,322 followers |

Shireen Mitchell

speaker, trainer, thought igniter in media, tech & politics; Investigator of the #UnusalSuspects~Geekette Grad '84~ White House Tweetup http://1.usa.gov/ntIWX6
8,240 followers |

Ellen Miller

Co-Founder and ED of Sunlight Foundation. Also founder of Center for Responsive Politics and Public Campaign. Money, power, influence and transparency expert.
8,082 followers |

Zeynep Tufekci

Technosociology: our tools, ourselves... Assistant professor of sociology.
8,080 followers |

New Organizing Inst.

Building the practice of Engagement Organizing, and leaders who are great at it.
8,016 followers |

Andrew McLaughlin

Vice President, Tumblr. Lecturer, Stanford Law School. [And Ex-X: Ex-White House. Ex-Google. Ex-ICANN. Ex-Berkman. Ex-Civic Commons. Ex-vegetarian. Ex-Xbox.]
7,947 followers |

David All

Proven entrepreneur, Internet dreamer, storyteller, runner, surfer and best friend to Jackson. I am the Internet; so are you.
7,743 followers |

Allison Fine

Author of Momentum, co-author of The Networked Nonprofit, host of Social Good podcast. Noodling all things social change.
7,564 followers |

Sarah Granger

Writer for SFGate, Spectrum, Forbes Russia, Huffington Post. Entrepreneur, innovator, speaker. Founder, Center for Technology, Media & Society.
7,259 followers |

Matt Stoller

Matt Stoller is a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. He is a former financial services staffer to Rep. Alan Grayson.
7,078 followers |

Jeremy Bird

National Field Director, Obama for America; St. Louis native; brother, son, husband & friend; lover of grassroots organizing & sports (newfound soccer fanatic)
6,804 followers |

Jerry Michalski

Your guide to the Relationship Economy.
6,579 followers |

Clay Johnson

Confirmation Bias is the new H1N1. Read The Information Diet by me: http://amzn.to/infodiet
6,489 followers |

Mindy Finn

Work at Twitter | co-founder Engage | recovering campaign operative. Tweet about politics + technology + media. Love dogs, DC and dancing!
6,326 followers |

Elasti Girl

Euro. chica. mobile. curious. fearless. pugnacious. Got boots.
6,180 followers |

Raven Zachary

President of Small Society (@smallsociety) and Founder of iPhoneDevCamp. I help organizations create great iOS apps for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
6,129 followers |

Sean Hackbarth

Weblogger (Blogger) for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's ChamberPost. The man behind Newt Gingrich: http://nyti.ms/kxhf0Z My views are my views.
6,101 followers |

Nonprofit Tech

Founder & Executive Director of Nonprofit Tech. Speaker and enthusiast on nonprofits, technology, web design, social media, open everything, and general geekery
5,880 followers |

Liz Mair

Comms & new media strategist; entrepreneur; former Perry, Fiorina adviser; former RNC Online Comms Director; GOProud advisory board member; Arsenal fan.
5,752 followers |

Scott Rosenberg

Executive editor, Grist.org; founder, MediaBugs.org; blogger, Wordyard.com; author, Say Everything, Dreaming in Code; Salon co-founder
5,666 followers |

Holly Ross

nptech-ie, lover of bacon, bad music, and my family. ED of NTEN.org.
5,609 followers |

Jesse Lee

An official WH twitter account. Comments & messages received through official WH pages are subject to the PRA and may be archived. Learn more wh.gov/privacy.
5,607 followers |

Jérémie Zimmermann

Co-founder and spokesperson for citizen advocacy group @LaQuadrature du Net
5,553 followers |

Tiago Peixoto

working on online and offline participatory democracy.
5,548 followers |

Andrew Rasiej

Political and Social Entrepreneur, Professional Doer. Founder of Personal Democracy Media, Senior Advisor to the Sunlight Foundation, Chairman of NY TechMeetup
5,514 followers |

Charlie Leadbeater

Author We Think, co founder Participle, trustee Apps for Good, advisor Ministry of Stories, associate Demos, fellow Nesta, husband, father and Arsenal fan
5,514 followers |

Adam Green

Co-founder, Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) at BoldProgressives.org (@BoldProgressive)
5,505 followers |

Carl Malamud

Open Source America's Operating System. It's not just a good idea, it's the law.
5,478 followers |

susanmernit

Oakland, hyperlocal, news, blogger, permaculture, social media, social justice, consultant, geek, feminist, troublemaker..
5,449 followers |

Nextgov

News, views and discussion on the world of federal IT. Part of Government Executive Media Group, Atlantic Media Co.
5,448 followers |

David Almacy

@EdelmanDC, fmr Bush White House staffer, husband, soccer dad, politics, ΦΔΘ, UMD Terp fan. Opinions my own, facts speak for themselves.
5,397 followers |

Deanna Zandt

Media technologist & strategist. Author: Share This! How You Will Change the World with Social Networking. Tech, progressive politics, feminism, dogs, writing.
5,380 followers |

Kevin Werbach

Wharton prof, Supernova organizer, gamer, tech policy maven. I like to hang around interesting people and think about the future.
5,347 followers |

Cheryl Contee

social media for social good - Partner/Co-Founder at FissionStrategy.com; Blogger (as Jill Tubman) at JackandJillPolitics.com
5,282 followers |

Kaliya-IdentityWoman

User-Centric ID expert, Facilitator of the Internet ID Workshop +unconf's. Founder Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium. Nymwarrior: Persona's are People too!
5,272 followers |

Microsoft_Gov

Your one stop shop for government technology questions & needs. Serving US Federal, State, & Local governments and highlighting public sector innovations.
5,035 followers |

Natalie Fonseca

Conference Producer. Entrepreneur. Writer. Geek. Co-founder & executive producer of Tech Policy Summit and Privacy Identity Innovation.
5,000 followers |

Adriel Nation

Maintained by @adrielhampton.
4,845 followers |

Valdis Krebs

Mathematician, social scientist, programmer, photographer, electronic musician, network thinker. Sveiks!
4,825 followers |

Nancy Scola

Political writer. Deeply into: technology, Congress, sharks, parks.
4,742 followers |

Siva Vaidhyanathan

Author of The Googlization of Everything (2011), The Anarchist in the Library (2004), and Copyrights and Copywrongs (2001).
4,682 followers |

Jesse Brown

TVO.org podcaster, Macleans.ca blogger, Toronto Life columnist. http://tvo.org/searchengine http://macleans.ca/jessebrown
4,645 followers |

Lee Rainie

Director of Pew Internet Project
4,541 followers |

Saleem Khan

Journalist, Knight-Mozilla News Lab maker, Innovate News founder, media consultant, tech watcher, speaker, traveler. Ex CBC, Torstar, Metro Intl, chairman@CAJ
4,501 followers |

cdorobek

Founder, publisher and editor of the DorobekINSIDER.com (@DorobekINSIDER) - covering the biz of government
4,496 followers |

govtechnews

The official Twitter page of Government Technology magazine.
4,494 followers |

Adam Conner

100% of the original Facebook DC office. you think you know, but you have no idea. standard these are my own opinions and mine alone disclaimer here.
4,452 followers |

Dave Troy

davetroy@shortmail.com – I like: beautiful things; experimentation; community; creating change; understanding the world; making stuff; helping people.
4,432 followers |

Beth Simone Noveck

Law Prof and former US Deputy Chief Technology Officer (2009-2011). Author, Wiki Government.
4,426 followers |

Jake Brewer

Smarter Government, visual story-telling, and the business of making good things (actually) happen.
4,350 followers |

Wendy Seltzer

cyberprof and legal activist
4,259 followers |

Andrew Zolli

Daily tweets about global foresight, social innovation, resilience, and PopTech.
4,255 followers |

Todd Herman

Recovering political operative: former RNC Chief Digital Strategist, techno-media exec, start-up CEO, mostly a Christian dad/husband who loves people & 1776
4,243 followers |

Amanda Michel

Open Editor, Guardian US. Former lives at ProPublica, Huffington Post. Co-founder of SparkCamp. Jewelry, food & art adventures. NYC.
4,242 followers |

Ask The President

What questions do you have for the President? Go to the link and ask! @TechPresident @TheNation @WashTimes @AriMelber @Colarusso @EndTheRoboCalls
4,220 followers |

Silona

Current projects: tunehopper.com Kinvey Zovino Citability code-a-thon.com #mobile #gaming #OpenEdu #OpenSource #OpenData #Privacy #OpenStandards
4,195 followers |

Eszter Hargittai

prof at Northwestern, fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center, geocaching, photography, travel, art, chocolate, turtles, etc. Also: gplus.to/eszter
4,144 followers |

Jordan Raynor

@KaraRaynor's husband, Client Director at @EngageDC, Member of founding team at @DigitalDoulos, @ChickfilA fanatic, dashboard drummer and TV on DVD addict.
4,120 followers |

Marcia Stepanek

Journalist, author, technology and philanthropy scribe, PopTech and SSIR blogger, founding Editor-in-Chief, Contribute Media http://about.me/marciastepanek
4,105 followers |

Tom Watson

President of CauseWired - journalist, author, blogger, consultant, dreamer.
4,065 followers |

Ben Rigby

CEO @sparked, the microvolunteering platform. Lover of Robots and my new baby, Luca.
4,044 followers |

Soren Dayton

Republican political operative, blogger, husband, PR/comm guy, cook. All opinions my own.
3,987 followers |

Jim Gilliam

Founder of @nationbuilder, the essential toolkit for a new generation of leaders and creators.
3,976 followers |

Susan Crawford

professor and advocate; future book, #thebigsqueeze, explains crisis in American communications; also focused on use of tech by govt.
3,934 followers |

noel hidalgo, frsa

Asoc. Director of Engagement Technologies for @WEF USA; co-founder of @NuAMS; member #BikeNYC, #TN2020 & @RSAorg; txt msg noneck to 41411 for eCard
3,924 followers |

DeborahElizabethFinn

Nonprofit technology strategist. I live to bring resources and needs together.
3,831 followers |

Andrew Hoppin

former New York State Senate CIO; social entrepreneur; grassroots organizer; planetary geologist
3,819 followers |

David Sasaki

Working on #opengov in Latin America with @OmidyarNetwork. All views my own. Previously @civicinfolatam, @techtransparent, @risingvoices, and @globalvoices.
3,700 followers |

Tracy Viselli

@ActionAlexVA Community Manager (follow please!), TweetProgress and #P2 cofounder. All opinions expressed here are my own.
3,654 followers |

Kombiz Lavasany

Formerly at the DNC. Living at the intersection of politics and technology at New Partners. Opinions here are my own. ~25 tweets a day. Mostly political tweets.
3,652 followers |

henry copeland

Blogads CEO, instigator of Twiangulate & Taghive. Pizza aficionado in Carrboro, NC.
3,574 followers |

Peter Deitz

Microphilanthropy advocate. #microphilanthropy #socent #impinv #nptech
3,566 followers |

Red Hat Government

Official updates from Red Hat's Government Team related to federal, state, and local government, K-12 education, and higher education IT markets.
3,531 followers |

She's Geeky

Connecting Geeky Women interested in Technology, Science, Engineering and Mathematics via Unconferences
3,505 followers |

Sunil Abraham

Executive Director - Centre for Internet and Society. Director - Mahiti. Member of the boards of Tactical Technology Collective and Samvada.
3,456 followers |

Shaun Dakin

@ShaunDakin Founder of StopPoliticalCalls.org. Fighting for Voter #Privacy Rights. *** ! see also @ReverseRobocall !
3,374 followers |

Matt Ortega

deputy director for digital at {new} partners; san francisco bay area native; university of arizona alum; hip-hop, alt rock; oakland a's and raiders
3,373 followers |

Shaun Dakin

Tweets by Shaun Dakin founder @PrivacyCamp, @EndTheRobocalls, @ReverseRobocall also @ShaunDakin
3,367 followers |

Web Foundation

Advance the Web to empower people. Learn more and find out how to get involved!
3,355 followers |

Sam Graham-Felsen

Writer and speaker; former chief Obama blogger
3,322 followers |

The Bivings Group

We're an open source web development #drupal #wordpress, media monitoring and social media consulting firm in Washington DC.
3,307 followers |

Ruby Sinreich

progressive activist, local politico, grassroots organizer, network thinker, geek, Buddhist, mom
3,214 followers |

sunlightlabs

Shining sunlight on government data and eating burritos
3,068 followers |

katephillips

NYT's 2012 polling editor. Former online politics editor,the Caucus politics blog, 2006-2010. Health care/urban studies/literature, purple states, etc.
3,023 followers |

Michael Turk

He's just this guy, y'know? Cooler than most, less cool than some.
2,981 followers |

Garrett Graff

Editor of Washingtonian magazine, author of The Threat Matrix, blogger, & Georgetown lecturer. All things equal, I'll take a Scotch.
2,971 followers |

Publish2

Powering the next generation of news.
2,964 followers |

brianbehlendorf

CTO at the World Economic Forum. Board member at the Mozilla Foundation, CollabNet, & Benetech. Former advisor to HHS & White House. Open technology maven.
2,950 followers |

ilyse hogue

Political strategist, Columnist for @TheNation, former MoveOn/Media Matters, shark obsessed. Can take the girl out of Texas, but...
2,933 followers |

Steven Clift

E-Democracy.org/BeNeighbors.org founder/leader. Created world's first election web site in '94 in Minnesota, intl speaker across 30 countries, Ashoka Fellow
2,899 followers |

Web Ecology Project

Better Understanding Social Networks and Internet Culture
2,888 followers |

steve4good

Big Society impresario. Irrepressible optimist. Ulsterman. Arsenal fan. Fond of hugs. Father of boys.
2,848 followers |

The Extraordinaries

Creators of the @sparked online engagement and crowdsourcing platform.
2,826 followers |

Gillian

editor at Capital. Former New York Observer reporter, TBI editor. Books, bits, beets, beats.
2,820 followers |

Julie Germany

Digital public affairs. Love the intersection between advocacy, politics & tech. Need travel, good books, and absinthe for survival.
2,788 followers |

marc_cooper

Writer and USC Journalism Professor
2,783 followers |

Jessica Clark

Jessica Clark tracks public media reinvention and innovation here; see http://beyond-broadcast.tumblr.com for more background and longer thoughts.
2,777 followers |

Jon Pincus

strategist, writer, activist, software engineer/security expert ... my blog's at http://talesfromthe.net/jon
2,707 followers |

Raven Brooks

Netroots Nation ED. Husband. Geek. Progressive Activist. Entrepreneur. Cyclist. Foodie. Guitarist.
2,702 followers |

Jjpolitics

2,690 followers |

ruthannharnisch

Philanthropist, coach, enthusiastic supporter of TED, TEDFellows, TEDTalks, TEDx, SupporTED, Bill and Ted. Recovering journalist, walker of labyrinths.
2,576 followers |

Michel Bauwens

Follow @P2P_Foundation; updates on open and free, participatory, and commons developments
2,568 followers |

Matt Browner Hamlin

Politics.Cocktails.Labor.Travel.Writing.
2,555 followers |

Adam Bonin

Attorney at http://www.boninlaw.com , DailyKos featured writer, Chairman of Netroots Nation Board of Directors, and pop culture blogger.
2,537 followers |

linkfluence

linkfluence twitter account, market, opinion, trends research 2.0 - twittered by @gfouetil
2,532 followers |

Joe Rospars

Chief Digital Strategist for Obama for America // Founding Partner of Blue State Digital (@BSDwire)
2,526 followers |

SeeClickFix

I let you document non-emergency issues to the world, so that they can be fixed. Improving your community is just a click away!
2,508 followers |

eric gundersen

it is shocking how much open data will fix things
2,491 followers |

Gabriela

Communications Director for the Sunlight Foundation, 1/2 of obetrol, theremin player, resident of the Shaw neighborhood in Washington, DC and novice gardener
2,449 followers |

Bev Godwin

Public Servant. Federal Citizen Info Center @ GSA. All tweets are my personal views, not that of any current or former employer.
2,417 followers |

Joshua Levy

Internet Campaign Director at Free Press. Papa. Views here are all mine.
2,415 followers |

The Next Right

Hub for center-right activism and strategy
2,400 followers |

Gwynne

Curious, irreverent geekette, working at intersection of Tech and People, loves her maddenboyz, now in dot-gov
2,352 followers |

Tim Tagaris

2,341 followers |

Scott Klein

Editor of News Applications, ProPublica, and Co-Founder of DocumentCloud. I tweet about news, software as journalism, data viz, design, and sometimes baseball.
2,338 followers |

Derek Willis

Web developer @nytimes.com. Tweets do not imply much forethought.
2,318 followers |

Scott Goodstein

Social Networking, Mobile Marketing & Digital Strategies for Social Justice! These tweets are personal Follow @revmsg for tweets from Revolution Messaging.
2,267 followers |

PdF Europe

http://personaldemocracy.com/europe
2,259 followers |

Colin Delany

Editor, Epolitics.com. Outreach/Online Comms Dir, Nat Womens Law Center. 15 years in digital politics. All opinions here are mine alone, don't you doubt it.
2,241 followers |

Tracy Russo

digital, social media, tech, gov pro, feminist, travel bug, TV addict, book lover, puppy mother. ♥
2,239 followers |

Ben Berkowitz

CEO and Co-Founder @SeeClickFix Interested in Bicycles, Neighborhoods, Gov20, hyperlocal News, Social Entrepreneurship and New Haven, CT
2,201 followers |

Gilad Lotan

VP of Research & Development @socialflow in NYC. Data Science, Visualization geek and @globalvoices author
2,201 followers |

AnnaCurran

New York City based Entrepreneur. Founder of @CookbookCreate and & huge fan of @StartupWeekend @CrisisCommons & @NLC. What are you founding?
2,083 followers |

John Wonderlich

sunlight foundation policy director
1,969 followers |

nataliefoster

organizing, technology & movement-building. rebuild the dream ceo. former new media director @ barackobama.com, democrats.org & sierra club. pup named pac.
1,951 followers |

Sameer Padania

Consultant on human rights, media, journalism, tech, philanthropy, working with @witnessorg and others. Latest project - Cameras Everywhere: http://t.co/bHqXC53
1,937 followers |

James Kotecki

Video blogger, political nerd, and technology optimist.
1,900 followers |

Personal Democracy

Personal Democracy Media convenes, innovates, & analyzes tech's impact on politics & gov. Brands include @techPresident, @10Questions. Tweets by @michaelshayan.
1,894 followers |

Gautham Nagesh

Writer. Journalist. Michigander. Founder of @StiffJab. Tweeting about boxing, tech, sports, politics.
1,810 followers |

judith meskill

coo - change.org. photographer & poet happily haiku'ing life ...
1,775 followers |

Tracy Van Slyke

Strategic media adviser and implementer for progressive journalism and organizing groups. Proud new mama to #babyleo.
1,766 followers |

Simon Rosenberg

I run a think tank in Washington, DC. Am a grateful husband, a proud father and an obsessive Little League coach. And yes, despite it all, I support my Mets.
1,756 followers |

NYS Office of CIO

We Know IT...IT's What We Do! News from the New York State CIO Office
1,745 followers |

Dan Ancona

Postmodern family man, political organizer, DemDash cofounder. Fascinated by economics and lover of principles, ideas & openness. Skier, sailor & dj.
1,711 followers |

Michael Silberman

Global Director of Digital Innovation at @Greenpeace. Co-Founder, @EchoDitto. Can be found @WebofChange every Sept. Seeking climate solutions and more ski days.
1,708 followers |

beka economopoulos

VP of @FissionStrategy, online organizing & social media consulting for non-profits. Director of @NAA_NYC, integrating art, activism, tech & theory.
1,671 followers |

Teddy Goff

Digital Director, Obama for America
1,670 followers |

John Geraci

I co-founded Outside.in, hosted DIYcity, and now head the New York offices of innovation co. faberNovel. I like starting startups, disruptive ideas & blogging.
1,657 followers |

MarkElliott

Founder of @Collabforge - Collaboration Design, Gov 2.0, Social Media consultancy; did a phd exploring stigmergy, collaboration & mass collaboration; nachos.
1,468 followers |

Fred Stutzman

Postdoc at CMU studying social networks, economics of privacy, HCI. Also developer of Freedom, Anti-Social, ClaimID.
1,444 followers |

Philippe Bossin

Groen! gemeenteraadslid Kortenberg • online comms & digital strategy @groen • interested in epolitics, social media, gov 2.0 • Green Party city councilor
1,431 followers |

Adina Levin

Socialtext cofounder/product mgt, social software, misc. civic ventures e.g. drivelesschallenge.com.
1,424 followers |

YochaiBenkler

1,415 followers |

Richard Robbins

Digital Strategist. Fascinated by impact of tech & social on society. NYer, father, cyclist, music lover, tennis player, BBQer.
1,412 followers |

shava23

Polymath entrepreneur/consultant, online since 1982, living at the lead edge of tech/society
1,380 followers |

JustinGermany

I make political Web video and TV spots.
1,353 followers |

Joe Anthony

Car-free in L.A. Likes bikes and the internet. Also @BCN, Social Media Manager @NBCTheVoice
1,318 followers |

Matthew Burton

Tech writer, open sourcer, and intelligence reformer. See more at the URL below.
1,309 followers |

Designing Obama

Designing Obama the book.
1,293 followers |

Open Web Digest

News and views at the edge of internet freedom and openness.
1,248 followers |

Joaquin

Transplanted Tejano/New Mexican living in DC.
1,220 followers |

Ari Wallach

Founder of innovation strategy firm Synthesis Corp. & co-founder of The Great Schlep. Futurist. Fatherist. Husbandist.
1,160 followers |

Michael Krempasky

Flacktivist (Also, EVP for Digital Public Affairs, Edelman) In my previous life, I co-founded RedState.com
1,148 followers |

Luigi Montanez

Engineer at a progressive media startup. Views expressed here actually aren't mine. They're yours.
1,134 followers |

Michael Stoddard

Geographer, cartographer, unusual unit of measurement (http://bit.ly/qpSyUU)
1,113 followers |

Daniel Ryan

Senior Web Developer at @Obama2012 (all opinions expressed are my own)
1,093 followers |

JeromeArmstrong

A few sites: MyDD.com, WebStrong.com, SBNation.com
1,081 followers |

John Della Volpe

SocialSphere Founder & CEO. Social Media & Millennial Strategist. Harvard IOP Director of Polling. Eisenhower Fellow.
1,075 followers |

Eric Frenchman

Digital, Social, and Search marketing ninja out of NJ. Dad, Devils, Giants, Disney, NJ and Springsteen fan.
1,074 followers |

Kari Chisholm

I'm a political consultant who does internet strategy and services for Democratic candidates and progressive causes. Plus, I'm obsessed with college football.
1,064 followers |

rootscamp

1,046 followers |

Todd Zeigler

I'm the Founder and CEO of the Brick Factory, a digital communications firm. I love the Pixies, Wilco, Willie, Spurs, Longhorns and Cowboys.
1,020 followers |

CNCPundit

Entrepreneur, journalist and CEO/Founder of NewsiT, the mobile crowd-reporting platform for quality news.
998 followers |

Bill Allison

Investigative journalist working at the Sunlight Foundation, which makes government more transparent.
976 followers |

Conor White-Sullivan

Radical Moderate. Advocate of Self Governance. Was Founder and CEO of Localocracy, sold to Aol, now causing trouble at Huffington Post
930 followers |

David S. Isenberg

If we had fiber and today-tech wireless as shared infrastructure everywhere, it still wouldn't be much without a free, open, neutral Internet.
907 followers |

Josh Hendler

Global CTO at @hkstrategies / Former Lives: Technology Chief for DNC/BarackObama.com. CTO at Jumo. ThoughtWorker. Tweeted opinions are mine alone.
900 followers |

Avelino Maestas

Amateur photographer, blogger from the Land of Enchantment. Now living and gardening in Baltimore.
862 followers |

Jason Kunesh

family, design, comics, guitars, gardens, food. 23rd best designer in the WORLD.
861 followers |

farmsubsidy.org

Farmsubsidy.org helps people find out who gets what from the EU common agricultural policy
829 followers |

Rosalyn Lemieux

815 followers |

Rob Pierson

Likes: rock climbing, yoga, motorcycles, and being outdoors. Works: @Beaconfire, helping nonprofits with new media. All views and comments are my own.
806 followers |

DemocracyLab

A nonprofit organization creating online tools to help people identify problems, construct solutions, make decisions, and take collaborative action.
805 followers |

kralik

A Thunderbird, entrepreneur, jazz enthusiast, gambler, recovering politico, globetrotter. Opinions are my own.
801 followers |

Brandon Kessler

Founder/CEO of start-up ChallengePost. Founder of Messenger Records.
784 followers |

Marc Laitin

Senior Director, Consumer Marketing at OPOWER
758 followers |

Jed Miller

Internet and communications strategist. Writer and editor. Evangelist for realism. Get excited ... okay, that's enough.
719 followers |

Brett Schenker

Video game playing, comic book reading, pop culture loving, political consultant
676 followers |

Jonathan Askin

tech law professor
652 followers |

davekarpf

-Asst Prof, Rutgers School of Communication -Former Fifth Officer, Sierra Club Board of Directors -Research area: new media and politics
650 followers |

Paul Canning

Cambridge based webbie consultant. Can drone on about egov, marketing, usability .. Also activist.medhikazemi.com
626 followers |

Advomatic

We're a Drupal Development and Online Strategy Firm based out of NYC. We build things for cool people.
618 followers |

Peter Leyden

Founder & CEO of NextAgenda.com, Cofounder of the new Torchline.com, former Director New Politics Institute; Wired Managing Editor; author & speaker
611 followers |

Jacob Colker

Co-Founder and Chief Evangelist of Sparked.com (the microvolunteering network). Spicy food fanatic. Musician.
575 followers |

Kerry

Infographics, Visualizations, Maps, Data, Music, Film, Photography, Culture, Food, Design, Travel, Adventure, Geography, Architecture, Literature.
571 followers |

Anna Maybank

544 followers |

Archon Fung

543 followers |

Catalina Ruiz-Healy

Just a Girl with a mission. Or two. Also check out http://rappaportfamilyfndtn.wordpress.com/
538 followers |

Nicholas Reville

507 followers |

Jonathan Godfrey

I'm Communications Director at the Association for Competitive Technology. I tweet about technology, politics, media and sports.
500 followers |

Jon Garfunkel

employed as: software process architect (BPM), pursues: semantic web, ethics, biking, paddling, running, hiking, tennis, gardening, jazz, puns
459 followers |

Stephen Buckley

democracy engineer; ex-auditor (5 fed'l.agencies/25 yrs. in DC); set up 1st web-forum for a U.S.Gov project (1997); host, @OpenGovRadio & @OpenGovMetrics forum
438 followers |

Robert Cox

President of the Media Bloggers Association
427 followers |

Kyle Rush

Web developer at Obama for America.
388 followers |

David Colarusso

Attorney, coder, craftsman, designer, educator, and writer. Check out the eponymous URL for the good stuff.
382 followers |

Josh Higgins

Design Director - Obama For America
288 followers |

10questions

Created by @pdfteam; enables voters 2 ask & vote on Q's 4 candidates; reward them w/ recognition when they choose substance over soundbites.
265 followers |

Dan Newman

Co-Founder and Executive Director, MAPLight.org - Illuminating the Connection between Money and Politics
230 followers |

matt debergalis

220 followers |

gavin clabaugh

I am me, most of the time. My pictures be here: Http://flickr.com/photos/gclabaugh and my highly irregular blog be there: Http://digitaldiner.org
192 followers |

Tom Steinberg

mySociety
171 followers |

Hugh Atkin

140 followers |

Screengrab08

A live online archive of the 2008 Presidential candidate websites
95 followers |

Matthew Hindman

44 followers |

SYN/ACK PAC

The political action committee for SysAdmins, Tinkerers, CodeMonkeys, Makers, Technologists, Warranty Voiders, and Geeks of all types.
37 followers |

Philip de Vellis

35 followers |

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